Boating

You’ve got to watch this….will make you scratch your head and wonder.

This has to be the simplest, most effective way to do it!!  Read more »

Forget the sails and the petroleum.  The catamaran yacht that Raphael Domjan plans to skipper has 5,382 square feet of solar panels.  The boat -- named PlanetSolar -- was unveiled Thursday at the Knierim Yachtbau shipyard in Kiel, Germany...

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CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP)  -- Eight crew members aboard a sinking sport fishing boat were safely rescued Saturday in waters off southern New Jersey. A passing boat notified the Coast Guard around 11:15 a.m. that the Always Late, a 48-foot vessel about 55 miles east of Cape May, was taking on water.  Read more »

Most of the world’s important commercial fish species have been declining for years. Nearly one-fourth are unable, essentially, to reproduce. The biggest cause of the deterioration in ocean health — bigger than climate change or pollution — is overfishing. American fisheries are in better shape than most but not by much.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. —  A fishing boat sank in rough seas off New Jersey on Tuesday morning, killing two people and leaving four missing in the icy ocean as relatives gathered at the water's edge to pray for their safe return.

The body of one crew member was pulled from the water by the Coast Guard after the Lady Mary, a 71-foot scallop boat based at Cape May in southern New Jersey and owned by a North Carolina man, sank with seven people aboard about 75 miles off the coast.  Read more »

A dead dolphin was found floating in the Navesink River Wednesday morning near where a family of 15 dolphins has been staying since early summer.

A marine mammal rescue worker said it is likely the dead animal was one of the so-called "wayward dolphins" that have been drawing large crowds since they made a wrong turn out of Sandy Hook Bay in June and wound up in two nearby rivers.

It was found by a marina worker in Fair Haven. The cause of death was not immediately clear.  Read more »

RED BANK, N.J. (AP)  -- Ever since a family of 15 bottlenose dolphins surfaced in two rivers near the New Jersey shore in June, wildlife officials have urged people not to get too close to the animals.

Now they're putting some teeth into their appeal, warning that the same stretch of river where the dolphins are frolicking also has been home to some of the most dangerous sharks in the world.  Read more »